We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.